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digits: Tablets, Smart TVs in Spotlight at CES

Lauren Goode reports live from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and tells Simon Constable and Spencer Ante why tablets and Smart TVs are expected to be in the spotlight at this year's show, which kicks off Wednesday.

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... yes the CIA ... I trial as UNC ninth inning as a the entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center where tomorrow night ... the Consumer Electronics Show will officially kick up with a keynote address from Eicher soft ... CEO Steve bomber Now the Consumer Electronics Show as we know ... it's like prom for the tech world may be more like the Superbowl thing going on for more than forty years ... at that time of year when big manufacturers and small companies alike can come ... and stop what they've been working on stuff like that does that hopefully will make its MRD later on this here now seven hundred and twenty thousand attendees ... are expected to hit the show this year we've got about ... twenty five hundred exhibitors as you can see the tiny ... knot if anything yet but I will say the excitement is ... palpable so so what kind of gadgets are expected to be on this here at the show ... time and ... it is all about ... tablets is not about plastics and it's about how blogs actually Forrester Research Europe early this morning it said it expects tablet sales to gets more than doubling twenty eleven to twenty four point one ... million units I that's up from their forecasts for twenty ten at ten point three million units unit the Foerster did say ... they expect the bulk of those sales to the I pad ... Apple Corps injured is that I had earlier this year as me now on the heels of that we saw the Samsung Galaxy Tab ... we saw that Dell Streak Nissan HP tablet that this is your people are looking to companies like Motorola like Toshiba by to see what they have opted to use the term untapped in terms of tablets also costly more Windows seven tablet and of course injury power devices ... or ... what about Research in Motion they are supposedly going to launch their PlayBook tablet ... but what's the buzz on that it is getting their people talk about it ... the only talking about the RIM tablet of Poors friend is we now have the majority of their share and smartphone market because they were able to tap into the business user early time so people are curious to see whether or not ... drinking Primecap and that seemed odd for greater business market here with her tablet device the Aspen's one your pretty excited ... about the four ... fourteen PM fourteen dollars and fourteen above and you are ... I'm excited about what the things that that that will be one of them ... are tough when you're excited what your expecting to come out this on four G ... so we've all been hearing about this great promise of wireless broadband for in a subway is out with us it finally happened ... Sprint started this year or less in two thousand and ten ... now Verizon the largest U S wireless carrier ... is just launched its four G network but the Hockenheim and smartphones ... or tablets ... to like it received an interest in ... what now they're finally ... going to be announcing a slate ... of us of mobile devices that work on four G so the committee smartphones from Mota role of ... our stance on ... the HTC and LG are all working on four G network ... the Motorola tablet which warned its preference is also ... reportedly going to be announced and I could also work on the Verizon four G network so ... you know the promise of four G falling Cummins life tenure as heavy as to say how consumers up ... react to ... that will be and by Mandelson is on the Semi's and the egg whites ... Joe ... was the go ahead take your point ... I was on CYPB the audience as ... well ... as the Mellat an CGV now hitting the market are of course Internet connected TV back twenty one percent at two hundred and ten million TV sets sold worldwide this year ... at an Internet connection we talked alot about the box is such as Apple TV and who will keep this doesn't bring more when video to your TV set now what's on TV many factors are doing ... is they're actually making the effectiveness of course is reporting that Rinker report by adding ROMs that in the Wall Street Journal in three D TV sets microprocessors in operating systems that make it possible for consumers to get wet TV wedding that she didn't need that additional box I as we reported earlier digits this year CTIA sales achieved an ... inflow this year there's been slowing demand for them ... I Many factors have prices that three D TV it doesn't balance well so this is definitely a tent for manufactures asserts that the IPT's began and perhaps for the Tele Guide ... for ... Web TV is one of those countries of the consumer would concentrate here for about more than decade that the cup into its own solution for Sharapova ... read CBO I don't want anyone would cut the workout is really no one ever for the evening ... you bring up there and play ... center that I had in fact a lot of technologies the law can see out the Consumer Electronics Show ... Neten ... and some of them tend to fall flat last year we spent three he was a huge team mobile DTV e beers last year everyone is racing to catch up with their me too products to the Kindle much in the same way that any tablet makers this year are raking it exits the AIPAC ... I you know what he deemed the BRIC still out on that buy anything pointing out that of all the technologies use the tour this year ... not all of them are to make if he gets what he just slap in the market ...